You awake one morning to find your brain has another lobe

functioning. Invisible, this auxiliary lobe answers your questions with

information beyond the realm of your own memory, suggests plausible
courses of action, and asks questions that help bring out relevant facts.
You quickly come to rely on the new lobe so much that you stop wondering
how it works. You just use it. This is the dream of artificial
intelligence.
BYTE, April 1985[197]
Robot designer Hans Moravec, cyberneticist Kevin Warwick and inventor Ray
Kurzweil have predicted that humans and machines will merge in the future
into cyborgs that are more capable and powerful than either.[198] This
idea, called transhumanism, which has roots in Aldous Huxley and Robert
Ettinger, has been illustrated in fiction as well, for example in the
manga Ghost in the Shell and the science-fiction series Dune.
In the 1980s artist Hajime Sorayama's Sexy Robots series were painted and
published in Japan depicting the actual organic human form with lifelike
muscular metallic skins and later "the Gynoids" book followed that was
used by or influenced movie makers including George Lucas and other
creatives. Sorayama never considered these organic robots to be real part
of nature but always unnatural product of the human mind, a fantasy
existing in the mind even when realized in actual form.
Edward Fredkin argues that "artificial intelligence is the next stage in
evolution", an idea first proposed by Samuel Butler's "Darwin among the
Machines" (1863), and expanded upon by George Dyson in his book of the
same name in 1998.[199]
Existential Risk
"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end
of the human race." -Stephen Hawking[200]
A common concern about the development of artificial intelligence is the
potential threat it could pose to mankind, possibly to its very
existence. The issue has come to gain popular attention, especially in
light of concerns expressed by individuals such as Stephen Hawking, Bill
Gates,[201] and Elon Musk.[202]
In his book, Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom provides a detailed argument
for the threat Artificial Intelligence may prove to mankind. He states
that there are a series of phases as to how an AI system can achieve
world dominance. The Pre-Criticality Phase entails the creation of the
seed AI. The seed AI is dependent from human intervening and can improve
its own intelligence until it reaches phase two, the Recursive SelfImprovement Phase. In this phase, the AI becomes better at designing
itself than the human programmers are capable of - surpassing human
intelligence itself. In phase two, the AI could develop such superpowers
such as (1) intelligence amplification (2) strategizing (3) social
manipulation and (4) hacking. After a phase two, the AI could reach the
Covert Preparation Phase, where it uses its new skills of strategizing to
achieve more long term goals. It may begin to mask their abilities. Thus,
the AI reaches a final phase 4, the Overt Implementation Phase which is
when the AI might strike and cause threat, eliminating the human
species and any opposition humans may have set forth to prepare. A
possibility of the destruction that could ensue would be major habitat
destruction. A major aspect of an AI being a threat to mankind stems from
its magnitude of capability to destroy compared to other agents with
possibly different goals.